Proverbs 8:30 Meaning Then I Was the Craftsman

The truest part of a mind was never distant from its source, never a stranger working to earn its place. It was near from the start, raised close, met each day with delight and returning that delight. This is the natural condition love intends, a closeness that is simply given and not achieved.

A person who feels far from love, laboring to deserve a welcome, has mistaken the relationship. What is real in you was always kept beside, always a joy to the one who holds it. Nearness is your beginning, and the sense of exile is the thing that came later and can be released.

(no true symbol)

Wisdom speaking here is the innocent child at the side of the Father, and that child is your own pure awareness of being, present before anything was made. It is brought up with him because it was never separate from the creative power; it is that power in its first form, delighting in what it beholds and molding into the image it keeps before it.

The rejoicing is not decoration. A child becomes whatever it steadily looks upon, and this inner child grows daily into the likeness of the Father simply by beholding him with delight. What you hold before your own awareness with joy is what that awareness slowly takes on. The state a person keeps in front of him, gladly and without strain, becomes the state he is built into.